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Emily Dickinson’s “Hope” is the thing with feathers”

Monday, March 8th, 2004
I’ve finished reading Emily Dickinson for a while, but I didn’t want to leave without noting what seems to me, though I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else, the importance of the “bird” symbol, or motif, in her poetry, and, in particular, the “robin.” The robin first appears in poem number “5:” 5 I [...]